At 03:15 PM 3/6/98 -0500, you wrote: That's what you would referr to as using proven technology! This reminds me of a story about the HP calculators. When the HP 35 calculator came out some of the US Army artillery men at Ft. Sill saw how fast they were and their accuracy so they put in a requision to buy a bunch of them. The Department of Defense liked the idea but they had to have a feasibilty study to justify the purchase, so they spent $150,000 for a study that took two years and end the end the study did show the costs of the purchase to be justified. Next, the army went to HP to buy some HP 35s but they found out that the 35 had been discontinued and had been replaced by the HP 45. They tried the HP 45 and found that it was even better, so they requested that the HP 45 be purchased instead. Again the DOD liked the idea so they commissioned another $150,000 study to justify the purchase of HP 45s. After a year and a half, this study also found the purchase to be justified. The army then went back to HP to purchase their HP 45s and .... You guessed it, the 45 had been discontinued and had been replaced by the HP 55. So the army requested that HP 55s be purchased. The DOD commissioned a third study (only $100,000 this time, the beltway bandits had this down pat!) to justify this purchase. This time the study only took a year. Again the army personnel rushed to HP to buy HP calculators, only to find out that the HP 55 had been discontinued! The artillerymen gave up and went back to their charts and tables! Joe